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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I saw this video a few years ago and it always stayed with me.

https://www.tiktok.com/@maybashleymarie/video/7308954735841643819

A woman recalls living in a shelter with her parents at age 16 and thinking very hard about her angel tree wish list. She said she pretty much had only the clothes on her back.

She asked for hoop earrings, black Converse shoes (she said she would have been fine with generic shoes), skinny jeans size 13, black eyeliner and a playboy bunny blanket.

She said she remembers opening up her gifts. "This lady went above and beyond for me," she says. Her first gift was a 24-pack of hoop earrings from Claire's - "so beautiful!" she says. Several years worth of eyeliner. Skinny jeans with the tag attached so she could exchange if they didn't fit (which she did need to do). REAL Converse shoes - "I *loved* those things!". And the most beautiful, soft light pink playboy blanket. She still has the blanket.

She said you have no idea the difference that getting great angel tree gifts can make in a kid's life, in their spirit. I dunno, this really struck me. Probably cost the giver several hundred dollars even back then. And sounds like the kind of haul that a well-off parent would give their kid.

So why shouldn't an angel tree kid get a good haul? I dunno...my feeling is, if you don't like kids asking for expensive items, then don't buy them. But don't trash the kid for asking. As a PP said, maybe they want to be like their richer friends who are all getting that kind of thing.

Watch that video, it will make your heart swell.[/quote]

You could get all that stuff for under $100 total. It’s very reasonable asks for a teen. [/quote]

+1 -- I'd happily fulfill that list.

A $400 northface jacket when my own kid gets Target? No.[/quote]

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